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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Lost Source and project file?

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Servant Saber
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Posted: 4th Jan 2012 11:08
Hello all, this may be a odd and somewhat silly question, but I'll get right to business^^
It's been a few months, and I found a rather old Program I made as a simple video stress test. sadly, I made sure it was a all in one .exe, no media or anything, and I need the source to find out how I made it.


Is it possible to open a DarkBasic .exe to find the Project Data, such as how the file was set up?
I know that as of the 7.5 DBP update, Darkbasic .EXEs are made so they CAN'T be opened in this way, but does anyone have any ideas on how to out how to obtain the source for a working .exe?

My apologys for the very wording question, I tend to ramble when I'm on one of my 48 hour coding streaks.

Thanks in advance
TheComet
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Posted: 4th Jan 2012 12:49
Unfortunately this is not possible, as the EXEs are compiled to machine code, which is irreversible unless you're an uber gosu hacker.

When DBP compiles code, it creates a temporary file called _temp.dbsource. All of your code will be inside that file if you still have it. That's the only chance you have.

TheComet

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Posted: 4th Jan 2012 20:35
Thanks Comet, I guess I simply have to start from scratch

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